tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841671.post-922737672003-04-09T02:08:00.000-04:002003-04-09T02:12:12.000-04:00How dare they. I read <a href=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030408/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_marines_prison_030408163048>this</a> story about the hundred or hundred-and-fifty Iraqi children who were imprisoned in northeast Baghdad, and all I could think was, How dare they. Not the Iraqi regime. We know the horrors they perpetrate. The meat hooks. The plastic shredders. The hot metal rods. How dare anti-war protesters tell us we have no business being in Iraq. How dare they. How dare they tell us it is immoral and unjust to free these people. Would they rather see these children rot away in these cells and cages? Maybe certain folks think this war is a failure of we don't find WMD. I think we will--and soon--but this war would have been just if the goal was only the removal of Saddam Hussein because of his reign of terror. It is worth it just to see these people freed. Just look at the faces on these people, oppressed for so long, free at last, at long, long last. These people who talk about human rights and dignity, about peace, about the "evil" US--what do they say to these pictures, these horrifying images, of torture chambers and rape rooms? And what about the children's prisons? Are they willing to acknowledge that their "peace" would have left these innocent children, and myriad other human beings, in jail--for no reason except that they prayed to much, or yearned for freedom, or didn't join the party? How dare they speak of peace. A peace bought with the freedom and dignity of a people is no peace at all. It is a sham.Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469631120776212711noreply@blogger.com